Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 14, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 March 1884 — Page 4

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.THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

PUBLICATION OFTICB,

,'ty

Nos. 20 and 22 South Fifth Street, Printing House Square.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TKKRB HAUTE, MAR. 1, 1884

came very near being totally innudated by the flood lileratare bat it is subsiding with the waters.

THERE

NEW YORK

is said that the senseless Parisian fashion of ladies wearing half-mourning during Lent is to be adopted on this side of the water. Why do they wear half-, •mourning? It is because this sex only commits half of the sins in the catalogue? •'THE Judge' caricatures the Democratic party Hitting well out on the limb of a tree, marked "Tariff." and vigorously sawing it off. That is nothing. They are only sawing out a plank for their next platform and will crawl back in time to save the limb—and themselves.

SULUV/^

JKVUY U, AKES a great parade of f'Wui distributing al ins ^poo^of Chicago.. Would d^t (able fopuei* to save'her

ty.'for the poverty strickon'classps of Hv LfXjidon, who aire a thousand times U'trpe ofFlhau^wdy that can be found in &

^V PAXTDX HOOD,

teachings.

VASDEIUIILT

THKsuggestion

Cot. J.

THE

is no being so impressive as a

prima donna.—[Ex. True, she is quite an impressario, so to speak.

MR. BAKNUM'S

A LADY press agent goes in advance of Rose -Eytinge. Sbe ought to be a success, for who understands the "press" business better than the ladies

Now is the time for the incipieoi candidate to bud.—[Ex. Bless you, he has already budded, will blossoms out «arly in the spring and be struck with a blight at the nominating conventions.

is said that "Logan's boom will strike the country like a cyclone." If that is the case Mr. Logan and his boom should be retired. The country has had sufficient experience with cyclones, late ly.

the slugger, has rep'Iod to

the challenge of Mervine rhoco_ea.cuL.£f

"»roven to him that Thompson has no }iran blood in liinri. It is the general ilnion of American citizens that any Jjnest, respectable negro, is' Sullivan ^perior.

convention is fixed for June 19 and that of the Democrats for June 25. The Republican National convention will meet in Chicago on Jane 3, and the Democratic National convention, in the same place on the 24lh.

Atlanta "minister delivered a discourse last Sunday in which he declared that "pictures are sertsuous luxuries and the money paid for them would be better employed if given to the missionary cause." Apparently, the time will come when a rich man will be grudged a comfortable tnoal because some poor heathen in Madagascar is not yet converted.

THE

pet elephant, Hebe,

expects—that is, she is about to—^well, she has retired from society for the present. ____

MYRON REED,

paper says, "Andy

McLean has been chosen to rattle ground in the place lately tilled by Thomas Kinsells, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle." How complimentary rival newspapers can be.

As WE predicted last week, the uowspapers have installed a dozen women as drivers of street cars, and locating them in different cities. We venture the assertion that there is not a woman street car driver in the country.

JofctN

THE

the great London

hafi, **mounced that hereafter Ifts texts for the Sunday ting discourses from the works of ^t.poeCs. This is a dangerous departure, jCfor thi «Hble has always been considered thd only iouudatiou lor true religious

ic tt

wants»the.

understand he i? riot ai ph^iw|^rfoplst. "ft They

understand it..!hgrou$iily,

an,i

will inscribe but two lines ks an epitaph upon his toroMtonfe, "''Tbi. public be d—d," .and "William never squeals." This is his contribution ta the literature of the nineteenth-century.

the Chicago papers continue taunting St. Louis with her failure to secure the Conventions, she will be perfectly ustided in raising an army aud cleanout the Windy City. Chicago's latest offer is to let St. Louis come up and give her Veiled Prophet's parade, in that {ttace during the week of the Conventions. a

•fe ." the \usl

that the delegates from

ludiana to the Chicago Convention should not be federal ollloe holders, is worth heeding. These men inay be as ree froui bias as anybody but should It by chance happen that Mr. Arthur should be selected it would materially increase his strength with the people to have few or no men holding federal ap~ jjolntmeutsiu the Convention.

B. MAYKARD,

Hi If TERRH HAUTE SATURDAY jEVEJSITJSTQ MAIL

Republican State nominating

eastern papers describe several

.Leap Year balls where the gentlemen wore low neck and short sleeve dresses. We can stand it to see a lady arrayed in that style, we can stand It remarkably well, but, by the great horn spoon we wouldn't spend an evening with a man dressed in that way unless we were a student of anatomy and this was part of the regular course.

TEN

thousand copies of the "Quedte's Diary" were sold the first day and a second edition will be issued at once. And yet it is a stupid, uninteresting book, of no value except that it was writton by a Queen. No doubt the royal family, If they dared express their feelings, would be very glad to buy up both editions and make a funeral pile for old John Brown to whom it is affectionately dedicated.

of the First Presbyter

ian church, has received a flattering "call" from Denver, and his church at Indianapolis have met to consider how they can keep him in that city. Brethren, when a man "calls" you, you must show down and see who holds the best hand and then you can tell who will take the stakes. If Indianapolis offers the largest salary she will take the minister otherwise, he goes to Denver, ...y

SWINTON,

in his reminiscences,

makes the peculiar statement that "the New York World was started as an orthodox religious newspaper, but when it fell Into financial straits, it threw religion overboard." Was it on the same principle that a ship or a balloon throws out its ballast And, according to the cdmmonly received notion, ought not the paper to have gone to ruin after discarding religion, instead of riding on the waves of prosperity, as It does to-day

"JIMMY DUNN"

is as successful a tem

perance revivalist as Harrison, "the boy "preacher" is a religions one. Wherever he goes he gets up a great excitement and obtains pledgers by the hundreds and thousands. He is now working in Richmond, Ind., where he is getting nledares at the rate of a thousand a week. ve signeu me pieuge or total abstinence in that city and ruoney is liberally supplied for defraying the expenses of the meetings. Why isn't this abetter way to work than to carry the temperance question into politics?

usual periodical items are going

the rounds in regard to women smoking cigarettes. One writer declares that he saw an old, black pipe on a lady'B dressing cstse'and Was so-.disgusted he never c'jilled on .her. again. Nine tenths of tljese statemepts are pure fabrications. But why should men be so dreadfully, shockingly, horribly disgusted at a habit which is universal among their own sex

man who can sit all day in a

crowded smoking car or all the evening in a saloon filled with smoke, must not faint away when he sees a iady puffing a dainty cigarette.

apparently intelligent and truthful report comes from Birmingham, the great manufacturing city of England, to the effect that manufacturers are so depressed in that country that there is no profit either to capital or lebor 8nd that a powerful syndicate has been formed for the purpose of locating and operating a system of great manufacturing industries in this country, probably in the southwestern States. The plan contemplates the transfer of whole colonies of working people. Thia would not seem totally well with the assertion that free trade is such a wonderfully good thing for England.

INDIANAPOLIS

editor of the

Indianapolis Sentinel has gone to the Mardl (Iras. Although the Colonel is now in his ninety seventh year he is still able to distinguish between a ruffled petticoat and a pink domino when the wind is southerly.—[Chicago News. This is an unqualified slander. It would take a strong north wind to demonstrate the difference and even then the Colonel would look the other Way.

THE

Tar« announcement comes from Washington that Col. Dudley has oonsentidlio the use of his name as a can didate for Governor. If this report is Iras Cot. Dudley wHi most likely receive the nomination, as there is a strong feeling In favor of him throughout the State. Ma Cfciklns Is pr h«bly the strongest man next to Dudley, bat his very frank ntteranofls on the liquor qnes tion offended a good many of the of absurdity tomt ranee tro to, who would more deserve a pension nave it, but that is friendly to Dndley. »certainly going far enough.

SUNDAY READING.

It would hardly seem to be the mission of the newspaper to protest against newspaper reading, nor is it our purpose to do so. But there is newspaper reading and newspaper reading some that is beneficial, some that is mere idle entertainment, a dissipation and a waste of time. It is true that the best thought of the times appears in the newspapers, but it is just as true that acres upon acres of empty, vapid, worthless stuff are spread before the people by the same agency. Columns and pages are filled with frivolous affairs, only to be repeated one day and denied the next. There is no end of the sensational. The four corners of the earth are carefully gleaned in order that no physical, mental or moral monstrosity may escape. The great blanket sheets which the metropolitan press issue for the delectation of their Sunday readers are filled with a mass of undigested stuff, carted in from a thousand sources and slung together in a great hotch-potch with fanciful head-lines to catch the eye and ear. And in this wilderness of Literary rubbish many people spend their entire Sunday leisure.

In a sense it is entertaining bat it is not profitable. It is easy enough to be tempted on from page to page, and article to article, until hours are spent in that which has become a mere mental dissipation. Even those who have natural taste for more solid reading are often beguiled into spending too .much time upon the daily newspaper.

THE

has not been left

entirely out in the cold after all. She Is to have the National Greenback convention. If such aconventlon must be held Indianapolis is as good a place as any for it, but why it should be held at all is the mystery. Why thirteen or fourteen thousand voters in Indiana should continue to throw away their votes election after election, is a thing hard to comprehend. Thore was a time when Greenbackism meant something but that time has long since passed. It is another illustration of dinging to an enpty name after all that it stood for has departed.

pensioning business has run

wild and somebody ought to call a halt ou it. Senator Harrison proposes to pension all soldiers In needy circumstances who have become disabled since the war, whether their service in the army had anything to do with the disability or not. This is certainly going a great way, but there are not wanting those who urge all, ex-union soldiers without reference to disability. This would be simply ridiculous. Many men who served in the army are now rich. Many who were disabled have held offices of large emoluments and are in well-to-do drcamitanees. To put such men on the pension roll* and tax all the people rich and poor alike, to pay the enormous outlay, would be the Highest

Let those who need and

,u'

While newspaper reading has its proper and important place, it is certain that an excess of it is not good, or at least not best. We know of men who will not allow a Sunday paper to come into their hodses at all, in order that they may not be seduced by it from another kind of reading which they wish to pursue on that day. They argue that when they have given six days to work and the reading about current gossip and affairs, they will have the seventh for a different use will .look ipto a few good books on that day. We know another man, himself the editor of a paper, who makes it a rule to read a little each day in some book which has stood the test of time.

And surely, when |we consider all the great men and women whose best thoughts have been crystalized in books, it is not asking very much of the present generation to demand that they give a few hours each week to the perusal of the literature of the past. To one who has become accustomed to doing so there is nothing more pleasant than spending his Sunday leisure among his books. No matter if they are few, so they are good, there is a wofld of enjoyment in them. Perhaps the best plan for a desultory reading of this kind is to be

There are times when you win gry for poetly. Theff read it, for then you will enjoy full. Take from the shelf. liteati volume. Revel for an hour quisite wonderland of the im "Endymion," or that deli morsel "The Eve of St. Agn a play of Shakespeare or

Read

of Mil-

sdrl

ton's great, rosouuding lines. Read^, what you like, so it is good. Then there will be times when you will not watit poetry for weeks or months perhaps. Your mind may run on science or history, biography, travels or fiction. You do not always want turkey^or dinn no more d«» you want the same dish on youlf "t^rary table continually. Read what j^ 'asos you at the tijme, but let it be sometniug worth the reading.

There is no bftttei* wav than this to get a real rest on Sund»»j'. *»?. ^Akes the mind entirely out of the ctmuntfls in which it has been running through the whole week. It lifts it from sordid, practical affairs, the hum-drum of common everyday life, Into a higher region, and the change is delightful and exhilirating. It is like going up on a mountain and looking.o,Y»r. a. wide scope of country. As the grandeur of the landscape is thus" revealed, so the moral and mental grandeur of life is brought out by an occasional rise to the higher levels of thought.

recent discovery of the deliberate

murder of three people at Avondale, Ohio, in order to sell their bodies, foi the pittance of |45, to a medical college for dissecting purposes, is about the most horrible thing that has come to light for many a day. It se«*ms incredible that such a crime could Recommitted for such sn object, yet the fact is before us, and it forcibly calls attention to the necessity of providing s#me lawful method for supplying the fiedical colleges with sabjests for th&dissecting table. These they must^uif will have and so long as there is np tawlul way of getting them, unlawful n|etdbds will be resorted to. As it is, the public knows that graves are desecrrted continually and|robbed of tbeiijdead in older to supply the colleges, that there at* men who make a business of this mfe»nble and gonhlish work, and that die college authorities are regular* purchasers or their stolen bodies. All this has been known for years and fiow comes the additional knowledge that the hardened men who make a business of graverobbing will not acrupls to add murder to their crime, when thiy think there is a reasonable prospect qf escaping detee* tion. If dissecting tables ass necessary in the medical colleges (and that tbey are appears not to be disputed) it is about time that some rational method be adopted for supply them with subjects.

Wll—

_1_-ll_1_1_l-_^1111.

LOTTA'S

"kick" does not please tbe

Britishers. The trouble to tbey are not fond of kicking. The Irish have been at it too long.

POLITICS.

Both the National and State conventions have been called and tbe counties are holding their conventions for the nomination of candidates for the various offices and tbe selection of delegates. As the phrase goes, "the political pot'has begun to boil," and all the indications point to an early campaign if not an early spring. It is said that the selectisn of Chicago by the Democrats as the place for holding their National convention means Mr. McDonald for their candidate. If so, why does not the selection of the same place by tbe Republicans means Gresham or Harrison? Perhaps it does. With the national tickets headed by Indiana men on both sides, Indiana would be a "battle ground" for certain.

A 8 to candidates for Governor, both parties seem to be a good deal at sea. On the Republican side Dudley, Calkins, Straight, Butler, and Taylor, of Fort Wayne, are talked of. Among tbe Democrats, Holman, Gray and Manson appear to be in the lead, with some mention of Senator "Voorhees, though it is said he will not permit the use of his name in that connection.

The Greenbackers have already put a State ticket in the field and the temperance people threaten to do the same, unless they receive proper attention from one of the old parties. Altogether tbe campaign promises to be fully up to the average interest.

LAST

Idaiit# bat exJnation, love

week, by mistake, a number of

our subscribers to the second edition received the first edition. This will explain the repetition of editorial, local and other matter in last week's issue. The error having been made we will continue—unless otherwise ordered—to send the second edition to many heretofore geting tbe first. Much of the local and other original matter will be found fresher and more complete.

THE

Tammany Democrats in New

York believe that Tilden is scheming to secure the nomination of the old ticket. He is working very quietly and craftily, but that is the way "your uncle Samuel' works. It is hardly possible that he will succeed, however, for Joe McDonald is a hard fellow to knock off the track.

SA YINQS AND DOINGS.

You can almost hear Ben Butler's silence, remarks the Chicago News. Don't go to scientific books to study the velocity of light. list examine your gas bill.

Colonel Itigorsoll and his wife do not attend church they hold a Sunday reception instead.

Mrs. Jano Swisshelm pays that the Aypy Aypt* I?-"3 I^QJllTrl firing marriage is absura. we' have long ,hottghV so^jyi^kS3»' foysome reason could never find just th9«0l)t word to express the sentiment in.

A good old rifan up in Epping, N. H., went to prayer meeting^fce other night, and unwittingly1 #8ll asleep. He was called upon to offer prayer, and, being dutifully punched by his better half,

Sa^e^ut^'"Gol-darn it, Betsy, kindle it yourself." .v A hunter who got lost during a late snow storm near Las Minas, Chihuahua, became so hungry that he cut off his faithful dog's tail for food, which he roasted and ate. He then gave the bono to the unfortunate canine, not unmindful sf the debt of gratitude he owed tbe sacrificing animal.

South Carolina wants to tax the pistol. If it could be taxed out of existance in every State good only would result. Nine cases in exery ten the bullet from a pistol finds the wrong man, and in tbe tenth case it goes off in the pocket and skins along the shins of the owner —the only instance, perhaps, in which it does any good.

Ed wis Booth writes to a New York play writer: "It is not my intention to add to my repertoire, and therefore can t»ot encourage you to write a play for me.?^dy health is far from good, and every fresh exertion l«tais to prostrate me. Henceforth I hope to limit my 'engagement to a few weeks each -year and to the few roles which tbe public seem? to prefer."

It is said that the handsomest women in New York are the white-haired ones, and that in no other city in the world are there so many at once white-haired and handsome. In Washington there some 5,000 ladies with snowy bangs and curls, and the whiter-baired a woman is the naughtier and more dangerous she is. A gentleman who ought to know, if experience teaches anything, says: "Beware of women with premature gray hair."

An Atlanta Constitution correspondent says: "Tbe other night while talking to United States Senator Brown 1 noticed apiece of rabbit fur protruding above his collar. I asked him if be wore a rabbit's foot about his nefck. 'No,' be replied, 'but I do wear a rabbit skin on my chest. A lady recommended it as the best possible protection against cold. I got a fine rabbit skin, cut off tbe feet, and, tying the two legs together with a ribbon, I tied the skin about my neck It has worked like a charm.'"

UNA WAY GIBUS. Program.

Ii is scarcely too much to say that there never was a girl who ran away, and who within a week at tbe farthest, did not regret ber course. Miserable as may have been the former surroundings, it is a thousand chances to one that she proves again the old theory of tbe fry tog-pan and tbe fire. Boys have ran away and became powerful and rich, holding their beads high above their fellows but I never knew that to occur with a runaway girt.

YOUNG HUSBANDS AND WIVES Mrs. Nash says to young wives in her article "After the Wedding" printed in another column of this week's Mail: "Learn early to act quite independently. And when your husband comes home of an evening, let uo domestic affair enter into your conversation. Let your day's cares be as a sealed book." The Chicago Current from which we get the article remarks: This is not good advice for young husbands to read. Just why a husband should not take a healthful interest in all those little domestic tribulations that go to wear out his wife is not very clear. Mrs. Nash's admonition appears predicated upon the presumption that a husband should not be disturbed by household affairs that he should come home to find everything contributing to his rest and comfort. There is a good deal that is false in this presumption. The husband should esteem it a pleasure to divide bis wife's troubles he should be manful enough to give consolation as well as to receive it. The course advocated by Mrs. Nash would make selfish creatures of husbands. ."•••

1 SOUTHERN WOMEN. Within the next twenty years the leading young women of the South are to become a great and beneficent power in the upbuilding of a new order of affairs. They are now getting a good deal more good schooling than the young men. So many of the bright boys go away, leaviug tbe bright girls at home,tbey are gaining on the men in the schools sre all powerful in the churches, and, of course, are the delightful despots of society. In tbe near future Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Howe will find south of the Ohio an eager listening to their advanced ideas of woman's position in the new Republic.

KEEPING HUSBANDS. Clara Belle. You ought to see the styles in which we are arraying ourselves for the breakfast and luncheon table. No woman of refined tastes will make a guy of herself in the street by wearing anything extravagant in colors or shapes but she can

Bit

VI guess-it is." 'gi WLJ1Well, I came to $be co»eM«m):^. twe time to show myself in tli^ new-'.*as

Sect

to my huhfev w*as in tto§ ipornir^ Nghtgown.} can't be varied an'/i, one can't lix her hair to any ij| the bed so I have made it a poin a great number of odd toilets to in before him at breakfast, tures him anew every nflornin] him think about ,me all day I014, brings him back to at night anjj dent lover." "I quote this advice for what it worth. Anyhow, it seem reasooabU doesn't it

,F,isfi•.

at the head of her own table in

all the outlaiadisbness that can be devised. Therefore young housewives ijre going to extremes in quaintness' and originality, not only wben they have guests at meals, but also when the company is restricted to their "immediate families. I called oti a bride of a few months early one morning, and Jound her pouring the breakfast coffee lor her husband. She was fairly submerged in tbe foamy bil'ows of a sea green robe, aud on her head was a cap of more intricate construction than I could clearly describe in half a column. After she bad kissed her spouse good by foi the day, and we were alone iu her boudoir, she threw off the head dress and changed the elaborate gown for a plain one. "Goodness meP I said, "is it possible that you achieve such careful toilet simply for your husbarid "Safe to bet on it, Clara," was the reply. "You mean to marry soma

onoe takea Jiusba&C l6t th" rHn* S»Trif. fltMrtl ugcinat

greatestU3 n' the satnenessVrtf?' ohe wif«%*i£ht will tij-e hinv .i you. Now, yt.r. effect any^tctuBkl-changes in yoam iWbata*Yi£»W|by of personyor must bo^ttraneous». Isn'l tiat so

TWO EDITIONS ...

Of this Paper are-published. .. The FIRST EDITION, ou Thursday Kfertlfeg has a large circulation in th£sj!jrro»\ndiHg

I a

agents.

The SECONI/ EDITION', on aatufd&y. pveiling, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the elty, and the firmei* of this immediate vicinity. Kvery Week's Iwsue Is, in fact,8?*

TWO NEWSPAPERS,

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